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Mexico: Sonora’s hot economy is focus of Arizona-Mexico Commission
The Arizona-Mexico Commission may have no official mandate to enter into binding agreements but that didn’t dampen the hive of activity that took place at its semi-annual meetings June 7 and 8. The buzz was about the roaring economy in the state of Sonora, due to its leaps in aerospace, mining, automotive and high-tech jobs.
Issues at the two-day meeting at the J.W. Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa dealt with diverse topics including solar energy, the drug cartels in Mexico and methods of certifying achievement and attendance in schools on both sides of the border. There were about 400 attendees from government, nonprofits and the private sector.
This year’s meeting came on the heels of an announcement that London-based Rolls-Royce will open a supply-chain office in Guaymas to work with the aerospace industry cluster that now employs more than 7,000 in the region. The Rolls-Royce office will have six employees.
Sonora’s economy has grown by 7 percent over the last year, exceeding most of Mexico’s 31 other states. Besides aerospace, other sectors in Sonora that have shown growth are agriculture, automotive, mining and fisheries.
The commission’s meetings included a mini-energy summit and tour of solar facilities in the Tucson region, including Tucson Electric Power’s solar test yard and Global Solar’s operation at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park.
“The topic of energy is vital to the future and to our priorities in Sonora, even though we have different laws and conditions of doing business,” said Sonora Gov. Guillermo Padrés in a speech. Federal laws in Mexico now make it easier to purchase imported energy and Sonora might “use our own demand, schools and public lighting, for example,” to purchase electricity from the “right kind” of Arizona renewable project, he said.
Among other topics at the Arizona-Sonora Commission meetings:
Economic development
• A first international aerospace business convention to be held in March in Hermosillo was announced.
• Creation of regional training centers and a mentoring program led by community colleges in Arizona was announced. The mentoring programs would help Sonora’s rapidly-maturing turbine, metal and carbon structure and general maintenance, repair and overhaul sectors.
• Financial strategies were discussed to support the mining industry in both states. A fall symposium is planned in Hermosillo.
Education
• Progress is being made toward developing an electronic student-records system that would allow the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction and Sonora Secretary of Public Education to assist each other in determining a student’s academic placement. Currently, students in Mexico are often placed in lower grades because they move back to their country without proper education records from Arizona. The proposal will require a memorandum of understanding between the two states.
Tourism
• Puerto Peñasco is gearing up for a fourth summer of charter flights to bring tourists from Ciudad Juarez.
• Sonora officials are continuing to pursue establishment of a regional airline in their state.
Politics
• Gov. Padrés, who took office in September 2009, has spent the first half of his six-year term working under President Felipe Calderón, a member of his own political party, Partido Acción Nacional (PAN, or National Action Party), but it appears unlikely that will continue after Mexico’s presidential election July 1. Josefina Vázquez, the PAN candidate, is currently running a distant third in national polls. A change would put an end to the favors that come from party patronage.
Drugs
• Arizona voters made a mistake in legalizing marijuana for medical use, Padrés said, adding he believes the marijuana legalization movement in U.S. undermines Mexico’s efforts at interdiction. He said there is no such effort happening in Mexico. “I tell you that as governor, as a parent, as a senator, a federal legislator that I know no corner of my country where this is the will.”
Source: Inside Tucson Business - GAI
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